Scientists Who Falsified Covid Origins and Are Implicated in Ebola 2014 Testify Before Congress Today

Robert Garry and Kristian Andersen are set to testify at 10 a.m. ET before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. They were central to dismissing lab origins of Covid with the highly publicized “Proximal Origin” Nature Medicine piece. (I believe I was the first journalist to draw attention to problems in “Proximal Origin” in my April 2020 piece in Salon.)

Garry and Andersen are implicated in the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

I will be live-tweeting the hearing.

In their written testimony, they actually tout their work on Ebola as a credential rather than adding to their indictment.

Says Andersen:

And Garry actually notes the proximity of the labs he manages in west Africa to the Ebola outbreak:

Members of Congress should vigorously ask questions about this. But many Republicans (being led by apparatchik Robert Kadlec) are focusing on demonizing China while many Democrats are pretending that there’s nothing to see here at all.

The possibility of lab origin of the 2014 outbreak was dismissed when Africans and others raised the it at the time. In fact, there are striking parallels to Covid origins. 

The outbreak happened over 1000 miles from prior such outbreaks. It didn't have the signs of a naturally occurring outbreak; in past such outbreaks, there was a die off of local mammalian species. 

I did an in depth investigation with virologist Jonathan Latham. See summary. 

Our findings indicate that the narrative of natural origin of Ebola 2014 is false. There is a very serious possibility that that -- like Covid -- had a lab origin. 

Notably, the Obama administration put in place their pause on funding of "Gain of Function" labwork on Oct. 17, 2014. That is the same day Ron Klain became Ebola czar. See further information on US Right to Know's website. See my appearance on Counter Points with Ryan Grim of The Intercept on the subject. Also, see Sierra Leonian journalist Chernoh Bah, who wrote a book on the subject. 

The power of biowarfare is the deniability of it. Thus, secrecy of information on the subject is paramount.

Many investigating lab origins are focusing on emails obtained through FOIA indicating that Andersen and Garry were pressured by Fauci and Farrar to change their minds regarding Covid origins in return for millions in grants. See timeline from US Right to Know.

Maybe.

But why were Andersen and Garry central to this? They have no expertise in coronaviruses.

It seems quite likely that they were chosen for this task exactly because they were implicated in Ebola 2014 and helped cover it up.

The US government can selectively release information through FOIAs to give part of a picture. The documents people are relying on start in very late January 2020.

I want to know what was going on before that.

What we could be seeing is a solidification of a “limited hangout”.

A classic example of a limited hangout is the apparent assassination of Frank Olson, a scientist who was apparently thrown out of a hotel window in 1953 to prevent him from exposing US biowarfare in Korea. It was first claimed that it was a mysterious suicide. Then in the 1970s, the US government “admitted” it was an LSD experiment gone wrong. That was a cover story.

We are a long way away from understanding the origins of Covid and attempts to say “case closed” from any side are part of the problem.

See prior writing including “Covid Origins: Progress or Orchestrated Next-Stage Deceitful Narrative?”